Title taken from caption. From verso: "Left to right: Osborne, the customs inspector, and major; aboard U.S.C.G. “Alert”." View of "Ozzie" Osborne, Mr. Sides, the customs inspector, and Alan May on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Looking across from Osborne and abendessen to Kiska’s headlands and the channel rocks (aviary): Little Kiska." Photograph of "Ozzie" Osborne during an outdoor lunch on Little Kiska Island. Cups, a coffepot,...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak 1936, the “gang”." From May's journal, dated May 24th: "Today the Doctor spent quite a time taking pictures of the "gang", - we should look pretty tough as none of us have shaved since arriving...
Title taken from caption. View of "Ozzie" Osborne working at the excavation site on Kodiak Island. He is utilizing expedition equipment, including shovels and a wheelbarrow. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's...
Title taken from caption. View of "Ozzie" Osborne, Sidney Connor, and George Corner near a Russian Orthodox cemetery on Kodiak Island. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. Photograph of the wood and sod building where Sidney Connor and "Ozzie" Osborne lived on Little Kiska Island. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...